Sand-pumping plant.



No. 892,329. PATENTBD JUNE 30, 1908. M. SWINTBK. SAND PUMPING PLANT. APPLIOATION FILED SEPT. 25.

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No. 892,329. PATENTED JUNE 30, 1908.

M. SWINTEK.

SAND PUMPING PLANT.

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SAND PUMPING PLANT.

Ai PLIQATIOy FILED SEPT.25.1906.

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MARTIN SWINTEK, OF DES MOINES, IOWA.

Specification of Letters Patent.

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Patented June so, 1908.

Application 'ciea fieptember 25, 1906. Serial No. 336,646.

To all whom it may concem:

Be it known that "i, Mnnrrn SWINTEK, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Des Moines, Yolk count Iowa, have invented a new and usefu Send- Pumping Plant, of which the following is a speci cation.

The object of this invention is to-provide improved means for gathering, elevating, washing, screening, .storing, grading and delivering sand.

My invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combination of ,elcments hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claims end illustrated by the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1. is s plan f the complete apparatus, or plant. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the screening, storing and delivering portions of the plant, ortions broken away to economize space. ig. 3 is a vertical section on the indicated line 33 of Fig.

In the construction of the apparatus as shown the numerals 10, 11, 12 and 13 designate bins sup orted on posts 14 in such manner that tie contents thereof may be deposited by gravity in cars on railway tracks 15, 16 alongside said bins. The bins 10, 11 are arranged in'psmllel rows contiguous each other and are spaced apart longitudinally from the bins 12, 13. An epron 17 is mounted on and extends longi-. tudinzilly of and upward from the initial end portion of the bins 10, 11, and that portion of the bins 10, 11 adjacent the apron is higher than the op osite end portion thereof. The outer side wels 18, 19 (Fig. 3) of the bins 10, 11 are extended above the pnrti tionsfiZO transversely thereof, as is also the longitudinal partition 21 between said bins,

the letter partition also provided with a. lank or walk 22 on its top. Egressports for each of the bins 10, 11 are formed in the side wslls18, 19 and normally are closed by gates 23, 24 mounted shoingly in bearings The bins 10,

' 11 s re provided with hopper bottoms inclined towsrd the egress openings. The gates 23, 24 are connected by rods 25, 26 to levers 27, 28 fulcrumed on the tops of the side walls 18, 19 end sdepted for manual actuation individually to open the egress ports of individual bins. There is one gate, one rod and onelever provided. for each bin or 11. Chutes 29, 30 are hinged at their inner ends to the lower portions of the side form 37 may be reached by a. ladder 3S, and

another ladder (not shown) may be provided between said platfdrm and the to of the bins. The bins 12, 13 also are provide with egress ports, gates 39. rods 40, levers 11, chutes 42, cables 13 and crank shafts 44 ad pted to be operated manually from the platform 37.

A hopper 45 is supported from and above the apron 17 and is open and communicates at one side with the upper end portion of an inclined screen 46, the lower end portion of said screen extendin over on the bins 122, 1:3. The screen 16 may in of any desired mesh and maybe mounted rcinovably and replacecbly in order that another 01' different mesh may be substituted therefor when dcsired.

A deflector 47 is hinged at its lower end to the central partition 21 and extends across the apron 17 The deflector may be placed in any desired position on the apron a mi served to guide em direct sand on the apron into either the bins 10 or 11. A trough 48 is provided at the lower end portion of the row of bins 10, 11 and a water pi e or overflow conduit 49 leads from one on of said trough. A scow 50 is moored adjacent the bins, as may be convenient, and a pump-house 51 is carried thereby. scow 50 within the house 51 and is driven by any desired power, in this instance by an engine in the pump house fed by steam through a pipe 53 from a boiler or boilers in a hous 54 on the land. A receiving pipe 55 made in' sections flexibly connected by joints 56, is supported on scows 57, 58, 59. One end of the pipe 55 communicateswith the pump 52 and the opposite end thereof is fitted with a suction mouth connected by a cable to a drum (not shown) in the pump house. The outermost section of the pipe .55 and the mouth thereon may be raised and lowered by -the cable 61 to adapt said mouth to the bed over which it is designed to work. A delivery pipe 62 leads from the pump 52 to the hopper 45 and is made in sections flexibly connected by joints 63. The deli rv nine A pump 52 is carried by the 62,is suitably supported between the ump and hopper. The scow 59 is attache to a cable 64 and said cable is rove through sheaves 65, 66 longitudinally removed from the scow and is adapted to be connected to' a drum (not shown) in the pump house. By means of the cable 64 the scow 59 may be moved in an orbit relative to the pump, and the scows 57, 58 move with it under the influence of the receiving pipe supported thereon.

In practical use the sand and water can be I pumped from the bed of a stream or body of per 45.

water through the mouth 60, pife 55, pump 52 and-pi e 62 and be delivere to the hoprom the hopper 45 thewater and sand flows by gravity upon the screen 46,'the coarse sand and gravel running from said screen into the bins 12, 13 and the finer sand and water falling through said screen upon the apron 17, from whence it is guided, as desired, by the deflector into the bins 10 or 11 or into both by removing said deflector. The first bins fill and overflow into the second and so on throughout the series of bins until the end is reached and the surplus water overflows from the last bins into the trough 48 and oii through the pipe 49, carrying with it the lighter grades of undesirable sand and the refuse such as leaves, sticks and dirt that may pass through the screen. As desired the chutes are lowered by hand through the use 3f the crank shafts and cables, the gates are individually raised by manipulation of individual levers, and the sand or gravel or both is drawn from the bins into vehicles, such as railwa cars, for transportation to points of use. hen allowed to stand for a time the Water drains from the sand in the bins through the egress ports and around the ates thereof. One or more bins only may be opened as desired.

I claim as my invention 1. In a sand pumping plant, a pair of bins arranged side by side, a series of bins arranged in. pairs in side by side relation and having the initial pair thereof spaced from said first named pair of bins, an inclined a min disosed in said space between the ins and eading from said first named pair of bins.

downwardly to said initial pair of the series, a hopper supported by and above said apron at a point intermediate of the length thereof, an inclined screen overl ing the apron and leading from one end of sald hopper downwardly to said first named pair of bins, and a 2. In a sand pumping plant,-a pair of bins a series of bins arranged in pairs and having the initial pair thereof spaced from said first named pair of bins, a longitudinal partition dividing said series of bins, said series of bins being at a lower elevation than said pair of bins, an inclined apron in said space leadin from said pair of bins downwardly to sai initial air of the series, a hopper at a distance a ove and overlying said apron, means for sup orting said ho pper from said apron, a screen eading from sai hopper downwardly to said pair 01' bins, said screen overlying said apron, and means on the apron leading from said partition to the sides of said apron to direct the discharge from said screen, and means for delivering sand suspended in water to said hopper havin its discharging point to one side of either of the two extreme positions of said directing means.-

3. In a sand pumping plant, a pair ofbins and a series of pairs of blns with a s acebetween said pair of bins and the .initia pair of said series of bins, an apron having converging sides leading from said pair of bins downwardly to said initial pair of the series, a hopper overlying said apron and spaced therefrom and located approximately central of the length of said apron, a screen overlying the apron leading from said hopper ownwardly to said pair of bins, and a de flector pivoted at one end at a point between said bins of the initial pair of the series and at its opposite end being adapted for engagement with said converging sides of the apron at points beyond the initial point of discharge of the screen, and means'for delivering sand suspended in water to said hop er having its discharging point to one side oi either of the two extreme positions of said deflector.

Signed by me at Des Moines, Iowa, this 27 day of August, 1906.

MARTIN SWINTEK.

Witnesses:

L. L. LEIBROOK, S. 0. SWEET. 

